Thank you very much to those who responded. The problem was with the /dev/random blocking. I used a different method to seed the PRNG and it worked great.
Thankx for the help. Kurt On Monday, February 11, 2002 10:03 PM Shaffer, Kurt wrote: > I am trying to generate private keys using the openssl binary with > the following command: > openssl genrsa -rand /dev/random -out private.keys 1024 > or > openssl genrsa -des3 -rand /dev/random -out private.keys 1024 > > After entering either of the commands above the system just sits > there. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
